Refinery

Amuay Refinery

PDVSA ·Venezuela, VE ·v1.1

A 635,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Venezuela, VE, operated by PDVSA.

Record

Rated capacity
635,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Status
Operating
Operator
PDVSA
Parent
Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/pdvsa-venezuela
Coordinates
11.7400, -70.2100

Notes

Start-up 1950

What coverage reports

49 days since one was reported

Venezuela's Amuay Refinery Back in Service After Outage
2026-07-03 · 1 publisher filed it

4 reported in 12 months

operations 4

2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

17 records25 Aug 2012 to 3 Jul 2026General 6 · Incident 6 · Operations 4 · Conflict 1
  1. Operations High
    Venezuela's Amuay Refinery Back in Service After Outage
    Devdiscourse · matched amuay
  2. Operations High
    Venezuela's Amuay Refinery Faces Power Outage After Earthquakes
    GuruFocus · matched amuay
  3. Operations Critical
    Venezuela’s Amuay refinery restarts basic services after blackout By Investing.com
    Investing.com Australia · matched amuay
  4. General Medium
    Venezuela’s Amuay refinery restarts basic services after blackout By Investing.com
    Investing.com Canada + 1 other outlet · matched amuay
  5. General Low
    VENEZUELA'S LARGEST REFINERY, AMUAY, OUT OF SERVICE AFTER POWER BLACKOUT
    news.cgtn.com · matched amuay
  6. Operations Medium
    Amuay Refinery Pushes Back Unit Restart Dates after Problem Arises in Delayed Coker Furnace
    Industrial Info Resources · matched amuay
  7. General Medium
    PDVSA Gradually Restarts Amuay Refinery in Venezuela After Explos...
    Industrial Info Resources · matched amuay
  8. Conflict Low
    Venezuela's Maduro says Amuay refinery was hit by a 'terrorist attack'
    Reuters · matched amuay
  9. General Low
    Venezuela Amuay refinery slop tank overflows into bay
    Hydrocarbon Processing · matched amuay
  10. General Low
    Amuay Refinery Disaster Was “Sabotage”, Claims Venezuelan President Maduro
    Venezuelanalysis · matched amuay
  11. Incident Critical
    The Sabotage Theory of the Explosion in Venezuela’s Amuay Refinery
    Venezuelanalysis · matched amuay
  12. Incident Low
    Venezuela's Amuay Refinery Under Scrutiny After Deadly Blaze
    National Geographic · matched amuay
  13. General Low
    Venezuela: Political Polarization Trumps Amuay Oil Refinery Tragedy
    Global Voices · matched amuay
  14. Incident Critical
    Aftermath of the Amuay Refinery Explosion (Published 2012)
    The New York Times · matched amuay
  15. Incident Critical
    What will Venezuela learn from its Amuay refinery explosion?
    The Christian Science Monitor · matched amuay
  16. Incident Critical
    Amuay Refinery Explosion: Toll Rises to 39, Hugo Chavez Orders Probe
    International Business Times UK · matched amuay
  17. Incident Critical
    Venezuela's Amuay refinery: 19 killed and more than 50 injured
    ITVX · matched amuay

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.